Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana / by Mr. Bossu ; translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster ; illustrated with notes relative chiefly to natural history ; to which is added by the translator a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North-America, or, a Flora Americae Septentrionalis; together with an abstract of the most useful and necessary articles contained in Peter Loefling's Travels through Spain and Cumana in South America, referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition.
| Author/creator | Bossu |
| Other author | Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798. |
| Other author | Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for T. Davies, 1771. |
| Description | 2 volumes ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales. English |
| Variant title | Half-title: Travels through Louisiana |
| Partial contents | A catalogue of the known plants, shrubs, trees in North America / collected from various writers on that subject [by J.R. Forster] -- An abstract of the most useful and necessary articles mentioned by Peter Loefling, botanist to His Catholic Majesty, in his Travels through Spain, and that part of South America called Cumana, consisting in his life, and in systematical descriptions of the plants of both countries, referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition -- The Life of Peter Loefling / [Carl von Linné, translated into English by Johann Reinhold Forster from the Swedish original of Löefling's Iter Hispanicum eller Resa til Spanska länderna uti Europa och America]. |
| Local note | Library's copy imperfect: some bleed-through of text. |
| General note | Translation of the author's: Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Huntington Library. |
| General note | Sabin no. 6466. |
| Citation/References note | RLIN, CTRG02-B321 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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